Bowl games are getting cancelled left and right. The reasons most schools are citing are COVID protocols, Injuries, opt outs, and transfers in combination as the reason they can’t field teams.
You can’t control injuries, and nobody can agree what do to do with COVID protocols.
What can be controlled to a certain degree are opt outs and transfers.
I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to force players to play, but the post-season should be a non-transfer portion of the schedule. Bowls are paying significant dollars to host these games, fans are shelling out their own money to attend games, and other programs are sacrificing their own holidays to prepare for games only to be told in some cases hours before a game it can’t be played.
The transfer rule is simple to manage, and another way to mitigate that and opt-out is with NIL bowls should be paying sizeable dollars to programs and their players, say $500 – $5000K more minor bowls. $5000K – $10,000 for mid-tier games and $10,000 – $15,000 for top tier games.
At $15,000 per player for the NY6 game that’s only $2.5 Million (170 players) for bowls that payout over $50 Million per game.
Player “opts outs” for bowls are becoming more and more of a routine issue for teams to navigate during #BowlSeason. Perhaps one way to mitigate that a bit would be take a portion of the #CFBPlayoff gazillions and pay each player that plays in a bowl a significant stipend.
— JS (@spencer_josh) December 27, 2021
Absolutely. The smaller bowls could give each player like $500 to $1000 per player. The bigger ones might negotiate with individual players, but I’m sure there’s a lot of value in getting guys like Pickett and Walker to play.
— CFB What Not To Wear (@CFBWhatNot2Wear) December 28, 2021
These bowls should look into paying the players who are opting out. Use NIL loophole and help promote the bowl. I would think it would help.
It’s a problem and if things don’t change it’s only going to get worse.— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 28, 2021
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